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Buttonwood
A Winner in Puerto Rico
Bonsai Societies of Florida, Inc.
VOL XXXVIII
NUMBER 1
ISSUE 153
SPRING
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EDITOR
M I K E S U L L I VA N
11721 Spinnaker Way
Cooper City, Florida 33026-1233
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PRE SIDENT
LOUISE LEISTER
4 Claridge Court South
Palm Coast, Florida 32137-8350
mysecretbonsai@bellsouth.net
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ON THE
COVER:
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
LOUISE LEISTER
A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR
M I K E S U L L I VA N
PORTLAND RISES LIKE A PHOENIX
M I C H A E L H AG E D O R N
BONSAI SOCIETY OF BREVARD SHOW
RO N N M I L L E R
TROPICAL BONSAI – FICUS WHITE FLY
M A RY C . M I L L E R
CARE AND FEEDING YOUR BONSAI TOOLS
BILL STORKE
BCI/FELAB IN PUERTO RICO
E R I K W I G E RT
BONSAI SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA’S ANNUAL SHOW AND SALE
SPIDER MITES
B R E N T WA L S T O N
BONSAI SOCIETY OF MIAMI’S
ANNUAL SHOW
BONSAI SURPRISE
PAU L P I K E L
BSF CONVENTION 2007
CYPRESS CELEBRATION
Conocarpus erectus, Buttonwood, at the BCI/FELAB
Convention held in Puerto Rico, in July 2007. It was a winner
of multiple awards and the crowd pleaser of the event.
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A Message from the Presidenu
H
appy New Year everyone! I was sitting at
my computer writing my President’s letter and
thought about the past year in bonsai. Wow did we
do a lot in 2007! I thought about all the places I
traveled, the conventions and shows I went to, and how much fun this
year was! It was busy and sometimes crazy, but it was a great year in
bonsai! Now that 2008 is here I’m taking a deep breath and plan on hitting the trail again. There are so many events, along with great artists
to see and plant material to work with. I only wish I had more time!
BSF added many new volunteers
to the board and to the convention team in 2007.
Our latest is David
Baruch who recently
took the reins of the
Speakers Program. I
want to give a warm
welcome to David
and thank him for
finding time in his
very busy schedule to work on the
BSF Board. David brings to the
Board a great attitude, along with
his experience as a professional
and bonsai artist. David took the
job never missing a beat, and
pulled it all together like he had
been doing it all along. I want to
personally thank him and I’m
honored to work with him, again!
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Along with David I also want to
thank Henning for getting the
new speakers section
up and running on the
website. Henning has
created an interactive
section where a club
or individual can sign
up for a visiting artist
directly on the web.
You can find the
information on the artist there,
and then book a session with the
artist as well. Please go through
this section and visit it as often as
you can, David will post all the
speakers information and scheduling pertaining to up and coming
artist events.
We structured this area of the
website to keep everyone
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informed. This allows first-hand
information to get to the BSF
membership long before their
club meetings. By doing so members won’t have to wait to hear
this timely information at a club
meeting and possibly miss out on
being notified because their
meeting was held after the deadline for the event. Please make
note of the deadlines for getting
your bookings in. We will keep to
these deadlines due to the travel
schedules of the artists and the
complexity of accommodating
them with these travel plans. Visit
our website often and pay close
attention so you don’t miss out.
BSF has a fantastic schedule
planned for you at our 2008 convention and the convention team
has been working hard to bring it
together! Everything is falling
into place and I hope you are
enjoying the Convention Newsletters and the great articles,
information and pictures in those
publications. The newsletter is
sent out monthly via e-mail so
make sure your e-mail addresses
are up-to-date so you don’t miss
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out on any of the important convention news.
Registration is coming in and
workshops are selling out – so get
your registrations in as soon as
possible. Again, Henning has put
all the information on the website
for all to see. I have to thank
everyone working on this project
for all their time and effort to
bring the BSF membership this
wonderful learning experience.
Epcot is in full swing and will be
a great event for 2008. Entries
topped 69 again this year and the
selection was difficult. This will
be the longest scheduled Festival
yet. It will begin on March 19 and
run through June 1, 2008. I
encourage everyone to attend and
enjoy our trees. It is truly a great
event and worth seeing. I want to
thank everyone who submitted
trees along with Paul Pikel, the
Epcot Chairman, and the committee members for all their hard
work and time in coordinating
this show.
Remember when buying your
bonsai trees and supplies, let our
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Portland Rises Like a Phoenix
BY MICHAEL HAGEDORN
W
alking in downtown Portland, I have come
across older areas that are gentrifying. Northwest
Portland has been under an urban revival for years –
not unlike many cities in the US, when jobs overseas cut
off the local industries and left industrial husks of buildings behind.
They are quite beautiful, in fact. Old brick and stone buildings from
the first half of the 20th century, still bearing marks of adjacent walls
that are no longer there; altered roof lines; patinas that cover one
surface, and not another. Most would have said, 15 years ago, that
they had definitely seen ‘better days’ – The days of their youth. But
they might not say that now.
While I walked in the
downtown Pearl
District over the holidays on a warm, moist
evening, what I was
struck by were these
old buildings and how
they have come alive
in recent years. The
area has become residential.
Factories have been turned into
lofts, and that night I saw that the
interiors were lit up by more than
Christmas lights – the big windows revealed a true residential
revival, a changed space. During
the day we see only the old,
weathered skin of these industrial
buildings, but in the evening their
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interiors become
incandescent, showing us that they are
alive again.
And old buildings are
not unlike old bonsai.
I was lucky to have
come across many
old bonsai in Japan, when I was an
apprentice of Shinji Suzuki for 2 1⁄2
years, which had the same feel as
these antique buildings. Many had
been bonsai for generations, and
yet had ‘gone to seed,’ so to speak,
for whatever reason. Perhaps they
had been passed on to people
without an interest in bonsai, or
someone had taken ill and could
not care for them, or they simply
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Sierra Juniper bonsai created by the author in California. Reducing the the tree to its essentials
was the simplest way to make an octopus of jin and branches into a bonsai with balance.
had not been repotted or worked
on for a decade or two. They felt
like these old industrial buildings
in downtown Portland: their
structure was good, often very
good, but they were out of service. Time and changing of hands
had made them unnecessary,
unwanted. And that neglect in
turn hid their merits.
When we worked on forlorn,
orphaned trees in Japan it was
like we put on our carpenter’s
pants and tool belt. We could see
what had been done before to
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them, and we tried to make them
come alive again, but in a new
way. The structure was all there,
and we offered only a reinterpretation, a revival. And it seems
that every time an artist
approaches a bonsai yet another
layer is added, another sheet of
translucent vellum, still offering
a hint of what was done in the
past. And the oldest of these
bonsai will give you pause: in
part it is their remarkable age,
and in part it is the visible history of so many hands touching
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WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE ?
Pest Alert – New Exotic Ficus Whitefly
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“
ecently, (August 3, 2007) a new pest was reported
attacking fig (Ficus) trees in Miami, Florida. This pest
was identified as Singhiella simplex, and is a new
U.S. continental record. ” – uf/ifas
When IFAS issues a Pest Alert,
you know something serious is
happening. Any pest determined
to be a “new continental record”
is one that has never been found in
the continental United States.
This whitefly looks
like any other whitefly, most of which are
generally considered
a small, solvable
problem. But the
damage this pest
does is very different.
“Fig whiteflies can
seriously injure host plants by
sucking sap from them causing
wilting, yellowing, stunting, leaf
drop, or even death.” – ifas
The first visible sign of Singhiella
simplex, commonly called Fig
Whitefly, is often leaf yellowing.
That alone may not mean your
tree has it. However, if you see an
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BY MARY C. MILLER
extensive amount of yellowing
and or leaf loss, take a closer look
under the leaves.
Another indicator is, when the
foliage is disturbed, there will be
small clouds of tiny white, gnatlike adult whiteflies
flying out from the
plant. Although I
have applied a preventative, I find
myself softly stroking
my Ficus as I pass by,
just in case.
The first fig whiteflies were found in Miami on Ficus
benjamina, it wasn’t long before
they were discovered on other
Ficus species. ALL of your Ficus
bonsai are susceptible! I first
understood the significance of
this problem when I heard that
a local bonsai person had discovered “whitefly” on his
bonsai collection.
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The body of the adult whitefly is yellow in color and the wings are white
with a faint grey band towards the
middle of the wing. Immature stages
(eggs, nymphs and pupae) can be
found on the underside of the
leaves. The pupae are small tan to light green discs with red eyes measuring
about 1.3 mm long and 1 mm wide. (You may need a magnifying glass.)
Peter Griffiths (Bonsai Society of
Miami) lives on the 19th floor of a
condo, about 200 yards from the
Miami River. That didn’t surprise
me, since it appears the critter
arrived along the Miami River in a
shipment from it’s home territory
(Burma, China and India). The
pests first appeared on the 5 foot
non-bonsai Ficus in large containers on his terrace. His bonsai collection is in the same space. This
is Peter’s story:
“I first noticed a problem about
two months ago. Quite often
these tall Ficus trees will shed a
few leaves, and eventually I’ll get
round to sweeping them up. After
a couple of weeks of sweeping up
leaves, and beginning to think
there were more leaves falling off
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than normal, I happened to spray
one of the Ficus trees with my
water sprayer. This produced
quite a large cloud of white
builders dust (they are building
yet another condo nearby).
But to my surprise the dust
started to move in some organized way towards one of the other
Ficus trees! Wow! It was Whitefly!
Millions of them. By the end of
that week the leaves were falling
in droves – I actually filled one of
those brown plastic Publix bags
completely full of leaves from
one sweeping.”
Peter headed to Home Depot
where he was handed a copy of
the Pest Alert issued by IFAS,
regarding the new epidemic.
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Opposite page: Red Spider Mites
Right: Damage caused by Spider Mites
Spider Mites
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BY BRENT WALSTON
pider mites are the bane of bonsai growers and growers
of ornamental plants in general. There are several
approaches, encompassing prevention, treatment, and
environmental changes. Whether you choose an organic
approach or the chemical route, you should find this article helpful. Keep
in mind the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM):
Monitor your plants regularly.
Practice prevention by creating a
nonconducive environment for pests.
As soon as you find
signs of an infestation,
use the lowest toxic
level of treatment.
Move to more toxic
chemical controls only if
necessary and warranted.
KNOW THE ENEMY
First make sure that you have spider mites. Red spider mites are just
visible to the human eye and should
be easily visible with a five power
hand lens. They look like little red
spiders. If you look carefully you
should also be able to see eggs that
look like microscopic pearls. They
also make a visible webbing that
looks like debris on the underside
of the leaf, not on top. If the mites
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are very small, translucent, and
appear to have two dark spots on
their backs, you probably have twospotted mites, or one of their relatives. Always look on
the underside of the
leaf, that is usually
where you will find
them. Badly infested
plants will have yellow
and red mottling of
the lower leaves.
If you don’t have a lens (and everyone should), use a piece of bright
white paper under direct sunlight, or
a strong lamp, shake the suspected
leaves (or needled foliage) over the
paper and watch for very tiny specks
scurrying to get to the other side.
Mites are programed to always go to
the underside of the leaf. Mite damage will appear on the lower, older
leaves first. Unlike aphids, mites are
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not interested in succulent
new growth.
Mites by themselves are not
aggressive movers. They
pretty much stay on the same
leaf or nearby leaves for their
entire lives. They are moved (vectored) by bird feathers, dog and animal hair, and clothing. They are
usually worst in dry dusty conditions, although two-spotted mites
have been known to thrive even
under very wet conditions.
Mites have their favorite species,
and by learning which plants your
mites prefer, you can use these as
indicator plants. You can also isolate the preferred plants for treatment if necessary. Plants with hairs
on the underside of leaves seem to
be a favorite, although not necessarily. Among the all-time favorites I
have found are: Roses (yum!),
Daylilies, Flowering Quince
(Chaenomeles), Apples, (Malus),
Blackberry and other Rubus,
Boxwood (Buxus),
and Junipers, but there are many,
many other species that are
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susceptible. Plants grown indoors
are especially vulnerable.
Mites usually start becoming a
problem in late spring and reach a
peak by late summer or just at the
peak heat of the season. They are
definitely hot weather critters. In
cold weather they move and multiply much more slowly. In summer
their life cycle is about seven to ten
days, that is, hatchlings are laying
eggs after a week or two. Any treatment must take this into account.
Just killing the adults does little
good. Repeat treatments are almost
always necessary to kill the emerging mites. In winter they begin
moving off trees and shrubs to winter over on grasses.
PREVENTION
Mites, like aphids, are easily dislodged from the leaf surface, at least
before they have a chance to begin
building webbing. A weekly hard
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BSF Convention 2007: A Cypress Celebration
A selection of trees from last year’s convention exhibit, the theme of which celebrates one of our most
beautiful native trees – Taxodium distichum – Bald Cypress. Above our tribute to Joe Samuels who
donated the watercolor that became the logo for this event.
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Jupiter Bonsai
Dragon
Tree Bonsai
L A R G E S P E C I M E N T R E E S AVA I L A B L E
ROBERT PINDER
3663 S.W. Honey Terrace, Palm City, FL 34990
(772) 418-7079 email dragontree@bellsouth.net
Right Next to Turnpike Exit #133 in Palm City
We are proud to supply the large Podocarpus and Ficus microcarpa
for the BSF 2008 Convention workshops. Please come join us at
our study group meeting held on the second Sunday of every month.
Time: 10–1 at Dragon Tree. We’re looking forward to having you visit.
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Wigert’s Mango Grove & Nursery
Above, Proprietor Allen Carver and wife Leah with two of his creations, a bonsai and his beautiful daughter, Ella!
invites you to its 4th annual
Bonsai, Pre-Bonsai, Nursery Stock,
Stands, Tools, Pots, Soil, Wire
Everything for your bonsai needs!
bonsai at the grove !
Saturday & Sunday March 1st and 2nd 2008
Join us for free demonstrations by Pedro Morales, Yrene Vasquez, & Adam Lavigne.
Many exciting vendors as in years past, food, raffles, and more!
Workshops
Saturday March 1st
10 AM – Bring Your Own Tree with Pedro Morales $75.00
1PM – Carving with Adam Lavigne $75.00
Collected buttonwoods with 4" trunks in mica pots.
Turn a straight stump into a work of living art!
Sunday March 2nd
10 AM – Ilex shillings with Pedro Morales $150.00
6" to 8" nebari, collected trees with great low branching.
1PM – Penjing with PowerPoint Yrene Vasquez $125.00
16" marble slabs, stones, and plant material included!
Call
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WHOLESALE TO THE TRADE
Retail, Demonstrations and Workshops
for Bonsai Clubs by Appointment Only.
And for the first time enter your tree in the Wigert’s Cup!
Bring your bonsai and enter for a chance to win a $150.00 Gift Certificate to our nursery!
All trees will be on display for the weekend and will be critiqued and judged by Pedro at 2 PM Sunday
($15.00 entry fee per tree). For more info call us at 239-283-2910 or visit our website www.wigertsbonsai.com
visit our website: www.jupiterbonsai.com
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Schley’s Bonsai & Supplies
1080-A Ridgewood Avenue • Holly Hill, FL 32117 • (386) 295-2612
Store hours:
Tuesday – Saturday
10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Bonsai by Dura-Stone
Dura-Stone Nursery was started as a wholesale nursery specializing in landscape
plants, cacti and bonsai. As the demand for bonsai and prebonsai increased we
decided to discontinue the landscape and cactus plants.
We are now a full-service
bonsai nursery specializing
in tropical plants. We carry
several lines of bonsai pots,
tools, wire and soil. Our
prebonsai are all trained for
bonsai with low branches
and heavy trunks. The
Specializing in
large trunk trees.
We have over
100 Cypress trees
with trunk diameters
from 4˝ to 16.̋
Over 5,000 plants in stock,
500 in bonsai containers.
We carry a wide variety of
Japanese and Chinese pots,
as well as soils and tools.
finished bonsai are in
all sizes from mame to
very large.
Monthly
workshops
conducted.
DIRECTIONS: From I-95 take exit 265 (LPGA Blvd East).
Head towards Holly Hill/Daytona, about 4½ miles.
At Ridgewood Avenue, US 1 South, take a right, Schley’s Bonsai
is the 2nd driveway – approximately 20 feet on the right.
Please visit our website at www.schleysbonsai.com
The nursery is open
to the public Mon–Fri
from 8 am to 5 pm
or by appointment.
The nursery is open to the
public the fourth Sunday of each month, weather permitting, for a free workshop.
You may bring your own plants, purchase from the nursery or just come to visit.
Jim Smith, Jim Van Landingham, Doug Smith or one of the other regular visitors
is always willing to help you.
We wholesale to bonsai dealers throughout the country and internationally;
we will ship any way you choose.
Dura-Stone Nursery
304 Old Dixie S.W., Vero Beach, FL
email: jamess@gate.net or visit us at: www.jimsmithbonsai.com
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Wigert’s Mango Grove & Nursery
Bonsai Societies of Florida
Bonsai, Pre-bonsai, Pots, Tools, Supplies, Classes
Your source for quality tropical material.
15857 Quail Trail
Bokeelia, Florida 33922
239.896.5549 • 239.283.2910
wigertsbonsai@earthlink.net
OFFICERS
Louise Leister
PRESIDENT
1ST VICE PRESIDENT
Vladimir Foursa
2ND VICE PRESIDENT
Erik Wigert
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wigertsbonsai@embargmail.com
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Narelle Robbins
narelle.robbins@gmail.com
RECORDING SECRETARY
Carol McKinney
ctmckinney@aol.com
BSF Membership
Individuals acquire BSF membership as members of a local affiliated club. Other
memberships include: Member-At-Large, Member Organization-At-Large, Donor
Membership, or Special Life Membership.
mysecretbonsai@bellsouth.net
TREASURER
Henry Robbins
bsf.treasurer@gmail.com
PAST PRESIDENT
Gene Callahan
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TRUSTEE S
DISTRICT 1
Lynn Fabian
COMMIT TEE S
Glenn Partelow
ARCHIVES
gpartelow1@cfl.rr.com
elfabian@cox.net
For membership information contact Carol Partelow, Membership Chair,
35 Eastwood Drive, Palm Coast, FL 32164-6157. eMail: gpartelow1@cfl.rr.com
CONVENTION 2008
DISTRICT 2
jpdolls2000@aol.com
Henry Robbins
bsf.treasurer@gmail.com
Virginia Wager
CONVENTION 2009
Henry Robbins
bsf.treasurer@gmail.com
Florida Bonsai Publications
DISTRICT 3
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